Question:

There is no dispersion of light refracted through a rectangular glass slab. Dispersion of light is the phenomenon of splitting of a beam of white light into its constituent colours.

Updated On: Aug 15, 2022
  • if both Assertion and Reason are true and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion
  • if both Assertion and Reason are true but the Reason is nor the correct explanation of the Assertion
  • if Assertion is true but Reason is false
  • if Assertion and Reason are false
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The Correct Option is B

Solution and Explanation

After refraction at two parallel faces of a glass slab, a ray of light emerges in a direction parallel to the direction of incidence of white light on the slab. As rays of all colours emerge in the same direction (of incidence of white light), hence, there is no dispersion, but only lateral displacement.
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Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

Optics, deals with the determination of behaviour and the properties of light, along with its interactions with the matter and also with the instruments that are used to detect it.

Ray optics is also known as the geometrical optics and it is a branch of science which describes light propagation.

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Speed of light is the rate at which the light travels in free space.

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